unthrift

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Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

For douteles, to doon his wo to falle, 430 He roughte not what unthrift that he seyde.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

I do confess thou'rt sweet, yet find Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favors are but like the wind Which kisseth everything it meets!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

If the Home was a place of punishment for the sin of unthrift the veteran offenders sought justice with a persistence that attested the sincerity of their penitence.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance He lay, content that unthrift Circumstance Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various